Mr. Pierpaolo Cazzola:

On range anxiety, I wanted to flag how the Norwegian statistics show the vast majority of charging events happen either at home or at the workplace. It is very rare to see a charging event happening elsewhere. The other places are destination chargers, such as in supermarkets, and eventually fast chargers. I have a hard time imagining that we will use EV fast chargers in the way that we use petrol stations today. The behaviour will change and move towards something that resembles more the way we charge a telephone rather than the way we fuel a car. Focusing on the availability of home chargers and access to charges at the workplace is probably the best way to deal with range anxiety and to ensure that the deployment of the charging infrastructure is aligned with the requirement of an electricity grid that will struggle to ensure that everyone fast charges. It will be much more costly to go in that direction rather than to ensure that we have the flexibility in parking the car, leaving it overnight and ensuring that it is charged in the morning. Many customers can do that. If they cannot do that at home, they can possibly do it at work if they need to go to work by car. Again, I am not arguing that as the best choice but quite the opposite, which is something we discussed at the meeting. Those are the most convenient and the most used ways to charge EVs if you look at countries that have a high penetration. I would rather take lessons from them on how to deal with range anxiety. I expect range anxiety will be less of an issue in Ireland compared to other parts of the world given the average travel distance. I expect the vast majority of trips will be easily covered by EVs with the range that is already available commercially today. I do not see it as such a big issue.